Choral

The Bard Festival Chorale and soloists joined Leon Botstein and the ASO for Schoenberg's massively orchestrated, rarely heard cantata.

The British a cappella sextet sang baroque and contemporary music that touched on death and grieving but also love and redemption.

The new music sextet unleashes microtones and nontraditional tunings among other boundary-pushing elements of music by six contemporary composers.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine hosted the Experiential Orchestra and Artefact Ensemble in Orthodox chants and a passion setting by Arvo Pärt.

Audience members can sit on yoga mats (or chairs) to hear 'Passio' by Arvo Pärt, preceded by Orthodox chants, at the world's largest Gothic cathedral.

The Clarion Choir's, precision, dynamics, balance, and overall musicality are always at the highest level.

I wish more people knew how fun Baroque music can be. The instrumental ensemble The Sebastians and the superb singers of the Yale Voxtet joined forces to prove it.

Finally, New York Festival of Song has released a recording of this curiosity from 1953.

This 90-minute oratorio tells the story of Jewish WWII-era refugees finding a home and community in Shanghai.

The composer set out to "advance a scientific, atheistic vision of the world" using the musical structure of a Christian Mass and modern choral idioms.